Look Up Quotes - Page 4

• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'

  James Caan

  Giving, Acting, Technique

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Guy

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• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

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• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

  Confucius

  Failure, Moon, Reality

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• I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

  Danielle Dax

  Hero, Insecure, Want Something

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• To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Love, Men, Long

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

  Novak Djokovic

  Positive, Country, People

  "Djokovic: 'I have nothing to lose'". Interview with Patrick McEnroe, www.espn.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, People, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

  Eminem

  Baby, Stupid, Kids

  "Global Protests, Tragedy in Arizona, and a Defense of Political Polarization?" by David Helfenbein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Vision, Looks

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• I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.

  Jordin Sparks

  Friendship, Hurt, Brother

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". The Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

  Kristen Stewart

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

  Sharon Stone

  Looks, Used, Young

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• There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

  Rex Stout

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Death of a Doxy Ch. 9

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• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Would Be

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• I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Drunk, Looks

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• Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

  Sojourner Truth

  Sister, Brother, Stars

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.27, Penguin

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• It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

  Emma Watson

  Doors, Knowing, Giving

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Looks, Dictionary, Delighted

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• I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

  Ron White

  Long, Guy, Looks

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• The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stars, Thinking, White

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Looks, Dictionary

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.

  Bill Watterson

  Looks, Scrabble, Vowels

  "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1991.

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• They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.

  Russell Banks

  Strong, Confused, Heart

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